Rio, I Love You
Screen Media Films | Release Date: April 15, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
26
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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4
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11
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50
ConsequenceBlake GobleMay 7, 2016
Rio, I Love You is worth a passing look for its pot of talent. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyDevan CogganApr 20, 2016
Vincente Amorim weaves each short together with lots of sweeping panoramas of the city, and the end result feels less like a collection of love stories and more like a bland tourism ad. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerApr 14, 2016
Rio offers the uncomfortable spectacle of 10 different filmmakers mostly failing to produce a sense of place that can be sustained over 10 minutes, much less multiple senses of place that can be stitched into an interesting patchwork. Read full review
40
TheWrapTricia OlszewskiApr 14, 2016
The bulk of these stories just aren’t very engaging — or even good. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesJohn HartlApr 28, 2016
Stuffed with touristy images but not enough dramatic substance to make any of them count. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireApr 15, 2016
Rio, I Love You feels like little more than an extended tourism promotion video. Read full review
37
Washington PostPat PaduaApr 21, 2016
There are more than 6 million potential love stories in Rio de Janeiro. Unfortunately, none of the 10 that have been assembled in the anthology film Rio, I Love You is any good. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaMay 5, 2016
Strangely, almost everyone must have been in the middle of some weird creative dry spell. Some stories are pretentious, some are annoyingly whimsical and some are just out-and-out obnoxious. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergApr 14, 2016
Tourism is what it has to sell. Read full review
30
Village VoiceKenji FujishimaApr 14, 2016
Even more than in Paris, Je T'Aime and New York, I Love You, this latest omnibus in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Love" franchise might leave viewers wondering whether these needed to be set in Rio de Janeiro at all. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeApr 14, 2016
The only people sure to love this concoction are those working for Rio's tourism bureau. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonApr 28, 2016
10 stories are just way too many. Had producers cut it down to, say, the five most promising stories and fleshed them out a bit, the results might have been better. Instead, it feels just as you might be sucked into a story, it’s over. Read full review
25
The Film StageJacob OllerApr 27, 2016
Some of these shorts are worth the ten or so minutes they take, but none of them justify wasting time on Rio, I Love You. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenApr 28, 2016
Despite its connotation of sun-drenched sensuality, Rio, I Love You is a dispiritingly dull affair. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneApr 9, 2016
The hygienization of Rio into what at times looks like a soulless Southern California town is so scandalous it feels like a spoof of the Cities of Love series. Read full review
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